EXHIBIT 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Know by all those present that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of John E. Capps and Caroline S.
Lind, signing singly, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:
1. execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as a reporting person of Platform
Specialty Products Corporation (the “Company”), Forms 3, 4, and 5, and any other forms or reports the undersigned
may be required to file in connection with the undersigned’s ownership, acquisition, or disposition of securities of the
Company in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange
Act”), and the rules thereunder;
2. do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete
and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, or other form or report, and timely file such form or report with the United
States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and
3. take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-
in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the
documents executed by any of such attorneys-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney
shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in the
discretion of any of such attorneys in fact.
The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every
act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein
granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of
substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact’s substitute or
substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.
The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the
undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section
16 of the Exchange Act.
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3,
4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned’s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier
revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 13th day
of September 2016.
/s/ John P. Connolly
John P. Connolly